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Haven't seen The Pajama Game (1957).

TCM has shown This Gun For Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942--not sure about the '35 version), Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), and Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) all a number of times. And and at least the '39 version of Beau Geste. (I think I also remember seeing the '26 version with Ronald Colman, but I may have seen it somewhere else.)

William Powell played Philo Vance in a few movies, The Canary Murder Case (1929), The Greene Murder Case (1929), The Benson Murder Case (1930), and The Kennel Murder Case (1933). They aren't pinnacles of cinematic art, but they are engaging and fun to watch. Powell is paired with Jean Arthur in the first two, and Mary Astor in the last. He teamed up with Ginger Rogers, tho not as Vance, in Star of Midnight (1935).

Yay!

My guess is you are thinking of Get Carter (1971), with Michael Cane: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0067128

Le Doulos (1963). People turn on their friends and longtime associates, to the point of killing. They betray the ones they love. The most disreputable prove to be most trustworthy and reliable. Is the world upside down? Is wrong right? No, the villains and virtuous are not what they seem. So maybe the world is right, and good prevails. Virtue rewarded, justice done. . . .Nah. Everybody ends up wounded or dead, even the innocent. One of Melville's best.

A continuation of the mixing of blues and western swing musicians that went on earlier in the century. One of few ways African-Americans and whites mixed socially in apartheid south. Clandestinely, of course.

One of the things I like most about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), she has one of the purest, sweetest voices I know. The only singer I can call to mind to approach her dulcet tones is Judy Collins. When she sings, her voice reaches right down into the middle of you. Born of a show biz family, she started early on the stage, eventually starring in stage musicals and acting in movies, and finally arrived when she took over for Julie Andrews in "My Fair Lady." As much as the movie did for raising her profile, it didn't pan out into a big movie career. Just fine for her, as she preferred the stage. She also enjoyed success in TV productions. She's still with us, though retired, living the life of a naturalized American in New York.

Yyyeah, but you know I'm talkin' about the kind E. G. Robinson would be in, a gangster movie, not a bleak, sardonic satire on the human condition.

Definitely apostrophe. My reference is not named. I can name it if you want. There, you've made me look up the meaning of apostrophe.

Didn't seem like a movie liable to musicality. But with Alice White in it, who knows . . . . Are there gangster musicals from that era at all?

O what havoc nuns hath wrought!

Whatever the uncertain worth of Le Douxième Souffle (1966), there's no doubt about the 1966 Dodge Dart in it:

For lagniappe.

So are the songs. "Why doncha all jus ffffffadeawayyyy. . . . Don't try ta dig what we all s-s-s-s-ayyy. . ." The original punk song. Twenty years before punk.

Pardon me for exhibiting my out-of-it-ness, but is this 50-50 thing a count down to 4 July?

What a cutie! Always one of my favorite actresses, and a really fine actress as well. Catch her in Other Men's Women (1931), with her stage bud Jimmy Cagney.

I didn't take it as rude. I just thought with the passage of time, you might find something worthwhile in it.

Hey, wait. It's not April first.

That would be too much opulence.

I can only remember it being on once before, three or four years ago. Can you say when it was last on? Or is that a question for another thread?

I find it at least entertaining to watch as I listen to the music. And Ken Russell does have a way with the camera. And I like seeing Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, and Elton John take on The Who. Maybe it didn't do much for you then, but maybe you aren't giving the movie a fair chance now. Thing is, you've probably missed the chance to see it, as it's not on Watch TCM, and I doubt it'll be on again.

That's the first time I've heard The Who described that way.

Don't forget Outward Bound (1930).

I have no mouth, and I must scream!